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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>EXCH</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="examining-the-entrails.html" title="examining the entrails"/><link rel="next" href="excl.html" title="excl"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">EXCH</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="examining-the-entrails.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="excl.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="EXCH"/><dt xmlns="" id="EXCH"><b>EXCH</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eks´ch@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eksch/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If you
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point to two people sitting down and say “<span class="quote">Exch!</span>”, you are
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asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the
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name of a PDP-10 instruction that exchanged the contents of a register and
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a memory location. Many newer hackers are probably thinking instead of the
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<a href="../P/PostScript.html"><i class="glossterm">PostScript</i></a> exchange operator (which is usually
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